# Re: \[PATCH v2\] rev-list --disk-usage

- From: Jeff King \<hidden\>
- Date: 2021-02-11 11:06:46 
- List: git
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7876300
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/git/2021/02/7876202/t.md

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 06:15:16PM -0500, Taylor Blau wrote:

> > > I kind of feel sad to have a nice write-up like this only in the
> > > list archive.  Is there a section in our documentation set to keep
> > > collection of such a real-life use cases?  Perhaps the examples
> > > section of manpages is the closest thing, but it looks a bit too
> > > narrowly scoped for the example section of "rev-list" manpage.
> >
> > Agreed on both counts. If this gets put into a release, I suspect Taylor
> > would cover it in a release blog post. That is not quite the same thing
> > as having it in the documentation, but it may provide more search engine
> > boost than the list archive. I dunno.
> 
> Yeah, this is the perfect sort of thing for those blog posts.
> 
> But it makes sense to include some of these examples in our own
> documentation here, too. git-rev-list(1) doesn't have an EXAMPLES
> section, but maybe it should.

I think this is the "narrowly scoped" bit from Junio's response above.
It would be a bit weird to have an examples section for rev-list that
only mentions this rather obscure feature.

-Peff
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